[Feuerwerkbuch].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Language:

Low German

Subjects (All):

Chemistry--History.

Chemistry.

History.

Explosives--Early works to 1800.

Explosives.

Fireworks--Early works to 1800.

Fireworks.

Military art and science--Early works to 1800.

Military art and science.

Ordnance--Manufacture--History.

Ordnance.

Ordnance--Manufacture.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

diagrams

drawings (visual works)

Manuscripts, German.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Acquired, 1966.

Physical Description:

139 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 200 x 157 mm bound to 199 x 156 mm

Other Title:

Grundtlik Furwark von Mennigerleywise tho makenn.

Place of Publication:

[Germany], [late 16th century?]

Language Note:

Low German.

Summary:

Work concerning firearms. Presumably compiled from various sources, with references to "barrels" ["levell"?] used in Italy (Venice and Naples).

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from Zacour-Hirsch Catalogue.

Incipit and explicit: Grundtlik Furwark vy Mennigerleywise tho makenn (f. 1v) ... ynn einn zarkell tho bringens (f. 81r) . [The remaining folios consist of illustrations; folios 16-17 and 95-136 are blank.]

Collation: I-II², III-XVIII⁴, XIX³ (first and last leaves are pastedowns). Link to collation model at end of record.

Foliation: Paper, 139; [iii], [1-136]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchwords on f. 12v only (end of quire III), lower right corner.

Script: Written in a cursive script.

Decoration: Pen and ink illustrations and diagrams throughout, many colored with orange wash. Includes depictions of cannons, ammunition, quadrants and other instruments, diagrams and tables.

Binding: German, 16th-century limp vellum dyed orange, with thong ties.

Origin: Written in northern Germany, late 16th century (possibly third quarter of 16th century).

Cover slightly warped. Pastedowns pulling away from covers, particularly front cover. Part of back cover missing, along with small portions of the last couple dozen blank folios. Back cover stained and damaged. Last several folios stained at outer edge.

Unidentified German dealer's description on file in the library.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 : Supplement A (5). The Library Chronicle 37 (1971), p. 103 (Ms. E. F. Smith 47).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 129

OCLC:

155962620

Online:

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